Chapter 127 Feng He Rises
After crying enough, I went back to my room to sleep and rest. I woke up hungry late at night and put the two buckets of instant noodles provided by the hotel into a bowl, and added Jinluo ham sausage and Wujiang pickled mustard tuber.

The old kettle was humming but the fragrance could already be smelled. This way of eating was learned from Xie Jingxing. Liu Qing licked his dry lips and thought for a while, then put on his clothes, walked out of the room and knocked on his door.

Cheng Wei, Li Yan, Liu Chen... Several people were there, sitting on the floor, each eating a bowl of instant noodles quietly. There were some barbecued dishes in the middle, as if they were holding an evil sacrificial ceremony.

"Would you like to eat together?" Cheng Wei invited.

By the time Liu Qing returned to her room to get the instant noodles, most of the barbecue had disappeared. She decisively found a place to sit down and grabbed two skewers of grilled pork belly, staring at the half-eaten bowl of wontons in front of Xie Jingxing.

"Another bowl of wontons."

Xie Jingxing sat next to the bedside table, turned around and picked up the landline to call the front desk.

Cheng Wei burped and took out a cigarette from his pocket to break the silence: "Want one?"

The special climate on the plateau made it difficult to smoke. Liu Chen, who smoked half a cigarette slowly, was the first to fill his stomach and leave, followed by Li Yan.

After several colleagues left one after another, Cheng Wei put out his cigarette, patted his butt and stood up: "Take your time to eat."

Liu Qing had finished his instant noodles and the wontons had not been delivered yet. He sat on the ground with his legs curled up, feeling very tired. He simply raised his hand to wipe his mouth and sat at the end of the bed. Xie Jingxing lay on the head of the bed to relieve his waist pain.

The two of them did not communicate at all, and it was the same throughout the journey. Everyone, including Cheng Wei, was silent.

Xie Jingxing and Liu Qing, with Didi’s management; Liu Qing and Xie Jingxing, with other Didi’s management.

If life is a cycle of ten years, excluding childhood and old age, the best ten years of her life were spent at Goldman Sachs, and then she gave up this period of life and joined Didi to start over.

Admittedly, there were various considerations involved, but the final word was what Cheng Wei said while drinking beer at a food stall late at night - you are not as good as Xie Jingxing.

So I was holding my anger in my heart and took charge of equity reform, women's public welfare, and GR department, wanting to do everything myself, big or small.

So what will happen to the other management of Didi? Will they serve as humanoid NPCs for the princess? In a sense, she and Xie Jingxing are the same kind of people.

The even breathing sounds in the quiet room brought out his tiredness. Liu Qing lay down with his legs on the edge of the bed, his body leaning towards the door, his eyes fixed in anticipation of a bowl of steaming wontons.

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The sun rose as usual, and the dazzling light woke up the sleeping people. There was a bowl of hot wontons on the bedside table. The water was running in the transparent bathroom, and Xie Jingxing was brushing his teeth and washing his face.

Liu Qing smoothed his messy hair, stared blankly for a long time, then crawled from the foot of the bed to the head of the bed and picked up the hot wontons.

"You'd better go out to eat, don't let them misunderstand." Xie Jingxing reminded.

Liu Qing looked down at his whole body, all the clothes intact: "You are at a disadvantage, right?"

"I'm afraid you'll suffer." Xie Jingxing shrugged.

He must have been so hungry that he would travel more than 5,000 kilometers and endure the physical and mental exhaustion to attack a married middle-aged woman while she was sleeping.

Normal people wouldn't misunderstand, but gossip is not normal. If you tell others about it, probably no one would believe that Liu Qing fell asleep in his room while waiting for wonton supper.

Nothing happened between the two the entire night, it was like getting your hair done while talking about the script.

Silently eating half a bowl of wontons, Liu Qing drank a mouthful of soup, raised his head and looked at Xie Jingxing and said, "Let's go back."

His hair was messy, his gums were stained with cilantro, and he was holding a large bowl in his arms.

With his serious expression, it looked a little funny. Xie Jingxing laughed, picked up his phone, tapped the keyboard briskly, and sent a message to the WeChat group he had temporarily formed: [Continue on the road.]

[OK.] Cheng Wei replied with one word in seconds.

The return journey was much easier than the journey there. The group of ten drove to the nearest airport and flew to LS for a transfer, and then went their separate ways.

Everyone went to the hotel last night and breathed a total of four thousand yuan worth of oxygen, of which Xie Jingxing and Li Yan only took a small part. After returning to the Magic City, they were naturally oxygen intoxicated and had a low fever.

His head was dizzy and he couldn't muster up any energy. Li Yan could take sick leave, but Xie Jingxing could only endure it.

While they were driving on Route 318, the " billion subsidies" were launched as scheduled, and they were rushing towards the ultimate subsidy price war route without looking back.

In recent years, there was the group buying war among thousands of groups, and then there was the e-commerce war. The big guys in the Internet venture capital circle boasted that they had never seen any kind of money-burning scene... I really had never seen the "10 billion subsidy"...

Even though Liu Qiangdong declared war on Suning and Gome on Weibo and clamored that the prices of white appliances would always be the lowest, he never dared to shout out the 10 billion yuan slogan to the outside world.

A thunderclap suddenly sounded, shaking the entire venture capital community to its knees. Mr. Ma quickly used Alibaba's social product "Laiwang" which had just been launched for more than a month to pass the message to Xie Jingxing, and decided to give him a favor and sit down with Tencent for a cup of tea.

Perhaps because he was afraid that he hadn’t seen it, Mr. Cai Chongxin, who was the person attending the appointment in person, told him again via WeChat.

Mr. Liu Chih-ping is very simple and strong. Upon learning that Xie Jingxing's self-driving trip was over, he flew directly from Pengcheng to Shanghai to meet him at the airport, fearing that Alibaba would have other ideas about the "10 billion subsidies".

Xie Jingxing had no choice but to invite Boss Cai to come over for a chat, and he hosted the dinner at the Yu Garden Lakeside Pavilion Teahouse.

The strong typhoon "Fit" is about to arrive, and the Magic City is still shrouded in wind and rain. The water flows along the tiles of the ancient teahouse, creating a hollow white noise.

Xie Jingxing's face was ruddy and his eyes were half closed, pretending to be asleep. He didn't need any disguise to be known as Guan Gong, the villain. Mr. Liu sat firmly on the door of the box with his back to the wind and rain, looking like Cao Cao, the white-faced Cao Cao.

"Mr. Xie, Brother Liu."

As soon as Boss Cai came in and greeted everyone, he got straight to the point, half-seriously, "You arranged a scene for me where Xiang Yu invited Liu Bang."

"Brother Cai, Liu Bang became the emperor in the end." Mr. Liu replied slowly and disapprovingly.

Boss Cai sat down facing the wind and rain in front of the window and continued, "Let's not talk about what Liu Bang did in the end. Xiang Yu left his name in history at a young age. He is the only one who has the honor of writing a chronicle in the "Records of the Grand Historian"."

As they spoke, they looked at Xie Jingxing at the same time, and then smiled at each other tacitly.

"What Liu Bang and Xiang Yu? They are clearly bandits inviting bullies."

Xie Jingxing had a severe headache, and he really didn't feel like accompanying two old guys who had been gentlemen for most of their lives to perform a show of sympathy, so he took over the role of the good guy and became the bad guy.

Mr. Liu smiled and explained: "Mr. Xie just drove to Tibet and is feeling unwell due to altitude sickness."

"What are you saying? It seems like we are the ones who disturbed Mr. Xie's holiday life."

Boss Cai said with a caring expression, "We are not in a hurry. We can get together some other day. Your health is the most important thing. Don't force yourself."

"The official interview document has been issued, and the time is set for the first working day after the National Day holiday. Didi and Bumblebee have both received it. Didn't Mr. Cai receive the news?" Xie Jingxing couldn't help but yawn.

Boss Cai took a sip of his teacup and said, "This is a good thing. The online car-hailing industry really needs the leadership to help formulate behavioral norms so that there will be rules to follow for competition within the industry."

"To be honest, since the concept of 'sharing economy' was proposed at the end of the last century, only Airbnb and Uber in the United States have emerged. Whether it can adapt to the domestic business environment is still unknown. Mr. Xie and I agree that the investment in Didi is based on our confidence in the entire Chinese Internet industry." Mr. Liu returned the favor and said frankly: "It is because everyone has worked together to maintain the survival environment that the Internet industry has flourished in recent years."

"It is hard not to agree with Brother Liu's point of view. In fact, whether it is Tencent or Alibaba, we are all beneficiaries of national development and industry transformation. We have played the role of reformers many times in this process, and this is also the case now. Online ride-hailing and mobile payments are both brand new fields." Boss Cai spoke from the bottom of his heart.

Mr. Liu shared the same sentiment and smiled knowingly: "We are not enemies. We encourage each other."

As Mr. Cai said, Tencent and Alibaba are both innovators in their respective fields. To some extent, they are exploring the boundaries of Internet business models for latecomers and cooperating with the national level to formulate the rules of the game for the entire industry.

For example, Tencent teaches people how to copy their European and American counterparts to achieve success, and Alibaba warns people through practical actions how challenging the rules of the game will only lead to their own destruction.

These two rules, which are now known to everyone and can be used by online writers for many years, are not easy to come by. They have been set back many times and paid a high price in trial and error.

As eyewitnesses, no one can understand the bitterness and hardships involved better than Liu and Cai, the closest comrades-in-arms to their respective leaders.

When it comes to the two new fields of mobile payment and online ride-hailing, they have once again become explorers. Fighting to the death is one thing, but banding together to keep each other warm and encourage each other to move forward together is another.

Facts have also proved the correctness of this point. It is they who have taken the lead in countless business fields, from online car-hailing to food delivery, shared bicycles, small and micro businesses, etc., and together burned hundreds of billions of funds, accelerating the arrival of the mobile payment era at the macro level.

Of course, if they didn't exist, there would most likely be someone else doing these things.

The problem is that the waves have washed away, Tencent and Alibaba have seized industry opportunities time and time again to leave all competitors behind, and are now ambitiously seeking to go further.

Mr. Liu and Mr. Cai reached a tacit understanding in a few words and set temporary boundaries for the entire industry. They then completely avoided specific details and started to share insights and discuss opinions in a friendly manner around the macro industry prospects.

Xie Jingxing forced himself to listen and occasionally said a few words. It was hard to tell who was better between the two old guys. They seemed to be on good terms with each other and kept talking endlessly.

"Mr. Xie, why do you want to drive on 318? It is said that the environment and road conditions are very bad." At the end of the conversation, Boss Cai finally remembered the middleman and brought the topic back.

Xie Jingxing yawned: "I was hungry this morning."

"?"

Boss Cai's face was full of question marks, and Mr. Liu, who knew the details, couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

"I went downstairs to eat breakfast this morning and ate too much, so I drove around to help digest the food and go to Tibet at the same time." Xie Jingxing was talking nonsense while he was not conscious.

"...The wind is quite strong in the snowy area, isn't it?" Boss Cai blinked and added, "It's good to be young."

Mr. Liu tried to smooth things over: "Mr. Xie is a sportsman who can do all kinds of sports. He and Wang Shi must have something in common."

"Mr. Xie, you can invite Wang Shi to climb Mount Everest together. I will introduce him to you." Boss Cai took the opportunity to express his gratitude.

Xie Jingxing suddenly remembered something: "I heard that Boss Cai likes basketball?"

"You want to play too? We can invite everyone in when we have time!" Boss Cai was inexplicably excited and full of confidence.

His basketball skills are invincible in Ali, but they are limited to the partners. Anyway, Mr. Ma, who likes martial arts, is no match for him and he often fights with his young colleagues.

The topic went on too smoothly, and Xie Jingxing didn't know what to say for a moment. Apart from left-handed fighting and free fighting, he didn't like any sports that involved strong physical collisions.

"I plan to invest in an NBA club, but I don't know much about the NBA, so I would like to ask Mr. Cai for some advice," he explained tactfully.

Boss Cai understood it immediately. He wanted to invest in an NBA club, but not right now. It would be meaningless to spend a small amount of money to buy some shares of an NBA club and become a mini shareholder without a say, but spending a large amount of money to acquire the whole club was relatively tight.

I had to decline Xie Jingxing's invitation for now, maybe we can play together in the future.

After exchanging a few polite words and watching Boss Cai leave first, General Manager Liu closed the door and started a conversation tentatively: "Thank you for your hard work on this trip to Tibet."

"You're welcome. The problem was caused by me, so it's only natural for me to solve it myself."

As Xie Jingxing was talking, Song Anli knocked on the door and walked in, holding antipyretic medicine in her hand and a windbreaker on her arm.

Mr. Liu looked back at the cool breeze outside the window, smiled sheepishly, and turned to close the window: "You have experienced a life-and-death test. From the perspective of an investor, it is very rare to have such a close relationship with the founding team."

Xie Jingxing didn't comment. He had no choice but to sleep in Liu Qing's car in the snowy area, just like Liu Qing didn't care about rumors about sleeping in the same bed with him.

Things had come to that point, and he couldn't just jump out of the car halfway, find a service area, have a good sleep, and then replenish his energy before setting off again.

Liu Qing couldn't reverse time and go back to last night to slap himself twice for being greedy, instead of being lazy and waiting for wontons in his room.

Xie Jingxing still couldn't believe what these artificially created life and death tests could represent, but the problem was there, and since he couldn't solve the person who caused the problem, he had to find a way to solve the problem itself.

On the overlapping section of National Highway 318 in Yaye, they got stuck in the car. Cheng Wei sat in the car like a loser and could only step on the accelerator hard. He got out of the car and gasped for breath while holding the oxygen tank.

He and Li Yan were covered in mud and snow splashed by the tires. They squatted on the side of the road in the cold wind and smoked three cigarettes. In the end, they led eight idiots to pull the car out.

Cheng Wei and the others probably thought the same thing. At that time, they couldn't find any other cars to help, so they could only curse at Xie Jingxing's inhumane command while gritting their teeth to solve the problem and pull the car out.

All in all, just stumbling forward.

"Smart people always like to guess what other people are thinking." Mr. Liu shook his head and laughed as he gave his comment.

【We are home and everything is safe. 】

The phone vibrated and a message came from Liu Qing. Xie Jingxing picked up the phone and read the message three times before looking up at Mr. Liu in front of him.

"I don't know what happened to you specifically, but I can be sure that if you send a message to Liu Qing now and ask her to come to Shanghai, she won't ask why." Mr. Liu smiled cunningly like a fox.

“Puff.”

Xie Jingxing curled his lips, took out a tissue and blew his nose hard in response.

Mr. Liu's smile froze and he opened his mouth but said nothing. If this kid was his son, he would have broken his legs long ago.

[Just met with Cai Chongxin, everything is fine.] Xie Jingxing typed a reply.

"call"

A gust of wind blew by, and the wooden window creaked open. President Liu looked out the window and exhaled: "The internal problems of the team have been solved, the money and food are sufficient, and the strategy is firm. Xiao Xie, the wind and grass are all up!"

"Lend your blessings."

“Maybe Didi is not the best car, but I am still looking forward to where you can drive Didi.”

“There are no cowardly cars, only cowardly people. This was taught to me by a Wuling Hongguang driver I met on the road.”

(End of this chapter)